Dr Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director-General for Family, Women’s and Children’s Health at WHO and co-Chair of the Gavi Board Commentary 26 April 2017 Hans Rosling was a brilliant statistician, medical doctor and communicator, who truly understood the value of immunization. Flavia Bustreo, Assistant Director-General, Family, Women's and Children's Health, WHO WHO One of the greatest myth-busters working in public health, he once asked an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos: "What percentage of children today are vaccinated against measles: 30%, 50% or 85%?". Some of the smartest people in the world mostly got it wrong, with just one in five correctly saying 85%. Hans told this story to drive home how little most of us understand about the positive impact of immunization. Such a low percentage of correct answers was, he said, clear evidence of preconceived ideas. The folks at Davos weren’t just ignorant of the facts – most of them didn’t recognize ...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to invade both Syria and Iraq in a surprise attack to flush out the presence of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). “ Turkey knows what to do and when to do it, we may come there overnight all of a sudden ,” Erdogan said in a statement on Saturday. Presstv.com reports: The remarks came after more than a dozen PKK members were killed when Turkish military aircraft carried out two separate aerial attacks against the militants’ positions in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region. The Turkish General Staff announced in a statement on Saturday that six PKK terrorists were killed around Sinat-Haftan area, while eight others were targeted in the countryside around Adiyaman. The statement came as the Baghdad government has frequently demanded an immediate end to Ankara’s airstrikes against Kurdish militant in northern Iraq, denouncing the assaults as unacceptable and a violation of its sovereignty...
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